Broken families about parched land: industry of the dry and family shifts in the northeast of Brazil

Abstract

It analyzes the industry of dry and of northeast identity in its historical evolution and its effects in familiars arrangements in Northeast Brazil. Starting from the dichotomies drought/dry and migration/retreat, reflects the social nature of naturalized phenomena in everyday representations, as well as the class inequalities that permeate all of society in that region. The cultural/discursive production of the Northeast and of the dry is understood from the perspective of political-ideological struggle for the preservation of the power of regional elites, in the face of political and economic changes of the XIX and XX centuries. Finally, the discourse of the dry is studied in its historical-social and symbolic contradictions: the referential and spatial shifts in northeast society make ambiguous its institutions, and promote a distancing between discourse and reality.